Baton Rouge's St. Patrick's Day parade, the annual Wearin' Of the Green Parade, will kick off at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 16, 2013. The parade will wind through the Garden District neighborhood and finish at the corner of S. Acadian and Perkins.

The 2013 grand marshal, Hillar Moore Jr., will be celebrated posthumously by friends and family.

The Wearin' Of the Green Parade officially began in 1986 when Pat Shingleton reorganized a then-defunct Baton Rouge Irish Club, according to the parade group's website. Shingleton wanted to bring the St. Patrick's Day parades he remembered from his time spent as a child in Pittsburgh, Penn. The parade has since evolved into the annual celebration of Irish culture Baton Rouge enjoys every year.